Language and the Politics of Sexuality Lesbians and Gays in Israel

by Levon, Erez

• ISBN13: 9780230227965
• ISBN10: 0230227961
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Examining how lesbian and gay Israelis negotiate the linguistic performance of their sexualities and the constraints of Israeli national ideologies, this book broadens current understandings of the uses and effects of variation in language and details the interconnections between language use and sexual, national and political identities.

Author Biography

EREZ LEVON is Lecturer in Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His research examines the interaction of language, gender, sexuality and nationalism in the United States and Israel, and has been published in journals such as Language in Society and Journal of Sociolinguistics. 

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vi
Acknowledgments	p. vii
Note on Translations and Transcriptions	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The social and the individual	p. 10
Israel	p. 19
Outline of the book	p. 25
Israel, Zionism and Sexual Subjectivity	p. 27
Citizenship in Israel: Rights and recognition	p. 28
The politics of belonging in Israel	p. 42
Conclusion	p. 58
Language and Mechanisms of Identification	p. 60
Perspectives on language and sexuality	p. 61
Investigating disjunction	p. 71
Conclusion	p. 90
The Politics of Prosody	p. 91
Ideologies of gender	p. 94
Speaking sexuality	p. 124
Discourses of Sexuality	p. 130
The voice of others: Oxtchit and Israeli gay men	p. 131
We vs. they: Gender morphology and Israeli lesbians	p. 143
Conclusion	p. 158
Conclusion	p. 160
Getting "beyond identity": Language and identifications	p. 160
Language, sexuality and social justice in Israel	p. 166
Notes	p. 173
References	p. 183
Index	p. 196
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